Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning
Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$170k - $277.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Learning a semantic and geometric understanding of the world from visual data is the core of Skydio’s autonomy system. This role focuses on training and deploying optimized deep learning models for autonomous drones in real-world environments, covering tasks such as optical flow, stereo depth, object detection, segmentation, tracking, localization and mapping, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models for Skydio’s autonomy system
- Leverage real-world video and sensor data for data mining, curation, labeling, training and evaluation
- Leverage large-scale synthetic data to power deep learning algorithms
- Leverage state-of-the-art foundation models for knowledge distillation and label-efficient learning
- Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
- Develop evaluation benchmarks and metrics to quantify autonomous system performance
- Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed
Qualifications
- M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering or related discipline
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, training and deploying deep learning models
- Ability to deliver high quality, well-architected code (Python/PyTorch and preferably, C++)
- Ability to leverage state-of-the-art academic papers for fast iteration
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and highly technical team environment
- Comfort navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
- Strong communication skills
- Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged and may be required for certain positions
Skills
Required:PythonPyTorch
Nice to have:C++
Benefits
- Paid vacation time
- sick leave
- holiday pay
- 401K savings plan
- group health insurance plans
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Skydio
A family of flying robots.
AI-powered autonomous drones for Drone as First Responder (DFR), critical infrastructure inspection, tactical ISR, site security, surveying and mapping
DronesAutonomous SystemsInspectionSecurityMappingPublic SafetyNational Security
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